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John Akomfrah (born in Ghana in 1957) was a found-ing member of the Black Audio Film Collective (active 1982–98), which produced a wide range of films, videos, installations, photographs, essays, statements, film programs, seminars, and talks. His latest feature film, The Nine Muses (2010), which screened at MoMA, New York, October
John Akomfrah's 'The Unfinished Conversation' (2012) constitutes a recent, fascinating negotiation of identity and difference. The film takes the life of culture theorist Stuart Hall as a point of departure, conducting a cinematic translation of Hall's own empirical and theoretical journey through identity and difference.
Beyond the Archive: The Work of Remembrance in John Akomfrah’s The Nine Muses
ve and John Akomfrah responded to this challenge by reawakening the phantoms of history and infusing the act of mourning with the possibility of collective agency. Be tween documentary and allegory, between letting go and moving on, Akomfrah.
A co-founder of the influential London-based Black Audio Film Collective (established in 1982), Akomfrah’s work interweaves newly shot film sequences with archival material to create multilayered, at times associative collages, frequently in the form of simultaneous narrative structures.
John Akomfrah works primarily in film and video, exploring place, memory, and history through the lens of postcolonialism and the black diaspora. His work takes many formats, ranging from feature-length documentaries to immersive, multichannel video installations, while employing both original and archival footage.
John Akomfrah is a hugely respected artist and filmmaker, whose works are characterised by their investigations into memory, post-colonialism, temporality and aesthetics and often explore the experiences of migrant diasporas globally.
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